St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-01-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PRESIDENT OIL harvard Will not
confer the degrees on next commence
ment day He will sail for Europe soon,
accompanied by his wife, and will remain
abroad until next autumn, in hope of re-
gaining his full health.
THE President is suffering from a return
of the rheumatic attack of several weeks
ago, from which he did not recover. He
is somewhat easier He remains in bed
most of the time, although he occasionally
sits up DR.. O'Reilly said on the 9th that
the President was improving, but that he
had ordered him to keep very quiet for a
few days.
SIR JOHN POPE HESNEssY, Governor of
Mauritius, has been suspended from office
CHAs. B. FARwELL, of Chicago, seems to
lead in the race for the Illinois senator
ship to succeed General Logan.
IT has been agreed by the British Cab
met that Lord Harrington should be asked
to join coalition ministry.
MRS. LOUISA C. STANTON has been
granted decree of separation from her
husband, Rev. Benjamin Stanton, at
Brooklyn, N. Y.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's condition,
though hardly to be considered critical, is
undoubtedly causing his physicians some
anxiety.
In the Federal Court at Indianapolis
Judge Woods, on the 2Sth, refused to re-
lease Samuel Z. Perkins, the contuma-
cious witness in the election conspiracy
case.
GENERAL LoGAN's funeral was arranged
to take place in the Senate chamber at
Washington on the 31st, and the remains
to be inferred in vault there until place
of final burial is determined.
JOHN HARMON, of New Mexico, and John
G. Taylor, of Colorado, have been appoint
ed, under Civil-Service rules, special ex-
aminers in the Pension Office, at salary
of 81, 400 per annum each.
JAMES A. LYDsToN, Of Illinois, has been
appointed medical examiner in the Pension
Office, at salary of $500 per annum.
This appointment was made under Civil
Service rules.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland re-
membered their household servants very
handsomely on Christmas day. Some of
the gifts presented to the serving people
were quite valuable. Jerry, the man of
all work, receiving neat sum of money
and provisions sufficient to last his family
several days.
LEWIS ID. HAYES, for six years one Of the
editorial writers of the indianapolis Jour-
nal, died on the 2Sth, after five weeks ill
ness He was thirty-seven years of age.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York denies the
statement, widely circulated, that he was
about to visit Washington, where he
would be the guest of President Cleve-
land.
MR. GLADSTONE has written for the Jan
uary number of the Nineteenth Century an
article entitled "Locksley Hall and the
Jubilee The article is criticism o the
poem by the light of events of the past
fifty years.
The French officer Letellier, who was
arrested recently at Carlsruhe on sus-
picion of his being spy, has been iber-
ated.
P. HENRY DUGRo, of New York, the
grand sachem of Tammany Hall, has re
signed. County Clerk James A. Flack
has been selected to succeed him.
Dr. PATTEN, an aged man who lived
alone in Franklin, Me-, was burned to
death in his house DR.. Patten was for
merlya successful dentist, but lost his
practice through intemperance, and Of late
he earned d living by cobbling. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
SPEAKER CARLISLE has filed his answer
to Geo. I'll. Thoebe's notice of contest of
his election to the Fiftieth Congress, in
which he denies all of Thoebe's allega-
tons
THE 10Th was the seventy seventh ami
versary of Mr.. Gladstone's birth.
THE London Post urges the return of
Lord Churchill to the Cabinet.
THE Ontario elections on the 28th result |
"a ii gain Of eight seats for the Govern
ment.
COLONEL r. G. WEIR, superintendent Of
the Adams Express, has stated that the
amount stolen last October was between
$81, 900 and $4,000 He had charge of the
payment Of these losses at the time of the |
robbery.
DIsTRICT-ATToRNEY BLISS was one of |
the guests on the 10Th at tea given by
Mrs Villas, wife of the Postmaster-Gen- |
eral, in Washington, to introduce her |
daughter, who makes her debut this win |
ter.
NONE Of the Illinois ladies in Washing
ton intend to keep open house or hold re- |
ceptions on New Years Day, out of re-
spect to the memory of General Logan and |
in defe renee to the sore affli ction of Mrs. |
Logan
GENERAL MILES called at the W ar De- |
partmento on the 29th and had an extended I
interview with Secretary Endicott The |
General left Washington in the evening |
for New York to remain day or two |
before proceeding to Prescott, Ariz., where |
ne Will Q1recb the removal OF his mead |
quarters to Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs Miles /
will accompany her husband West
SPEAKER CARLISLE says that he does not
think there will be any legislation this |
winter to reduce the surplus. The time is
too short and there is too great disagree
ment on both sides of the House. He says:
ssrhe American people can not be made to /
realize any situation until it is actually
upon them
JAMES A. McMAs TER, the veteran editor
OF the New York FreenaGn's Journal and
the leading Catholic journalist, died in St
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